Remote Council Meetings: Peer to peer support

e-learning and training materials

LGA e-learning Module How to hold an online council meeting  

LGA e-learning Module How to hold an online council meeting
Click on ‘this platform’ and scroll to the end of the modules for ‘Online Council Meeting.'

Zoom training video created by Northants CALC  

This video was created by Northants CALC  to demonstrate what a virtual meeting of (the fictional) Great Pipping Parish Council would look like in Zoom. It is a training video designed to show how a chairman would deal with councillors joining by computer and phone, declarations of interest, public participation and confidential items where members of the public and press are excluded.

Holding meetings: webinar by SLCC (Society of Local Council Clerks) 

Discover how to use Go To Meeting, provided by the SLCC

Examples of virtual council meetings

Rutland County Council Cabinet Meeting | 21 April 2020

Time: 10am
Organiser: Rutland County Council
Platform: Zoom
More information: Rutland County Council Cabinet Meeting

Scrutiny Officers Good Practice Sharing | 21 April 2020

Time: 3.30pm
Organiser: Dave McKenna Solutions
Platform: Zoom
More information: Scrutiny Offers Good Practice Sharing

Harborough District Council Planning Meeting | 21 April 2020

Time: 6.30pm
Organiser: Harborough District Council
Platform: Webinar
More information: Harborough District Council Planning Meeting

Hambleton District Council Meeting | 17 April 2020

Time: 2pm
Organiser: Hambleton District Council
Platform: Conference call
More information: Hambleton District Council Meeting

Ealing Council Licensing Sub Committee

Time: 1pm
Organiser: Ealing Council
Platform: Microsoft Teams Live
More information: Ealing  Council Licensing Sub Committee

Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet Meeting | 14 April 2020

Time: 2pm
Organiser: Northamptonshire County Council
Platform: YouTube
More information: Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet Meeting

Planning Applications Committee | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 9 April 2020

Time: 6.30pm
Organiser: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Platform: Team
More information: Planning Applications Committee

Blaby District Council Meeting | 9 April 2020

Time: 2pm
Organiser: Blaby District Council
More information: Blaby District Full Council Meeting

Devon County Council Cabinet Meeting | 8 April 2020

Time: 10.30am
Organiser: Devon County Council
More information: Devon County Council Cabinet Meeting

Surrey Heath Borough Council Meeting | 8 April 2020

Time: 7pm
Organiser: Surrey Heath Borough Council
Platform: Zoom and YouTube
More information: Surrey Heath Borough Full Council Meeting

Scrutiny officers good practice sharing, Public.Gov | 7 April 2020

Time: 2-3pm
Organiser: Public.Gov
Platform: Zoom
More information: Scrutiny officers good practice sharing 

Licensing Team Hold Mock Committee Hearing, Kings Chamber | 7 April 2020

Time: 11am
Organiser: Kings Chamber 
Platform: Zoom
More information: Licensing Team Hold Mock Committee Hearing

Southwark Council Cabinet Meeting | 7 April 2020

Time: 4.30pm
Organiser: Southwark Council
More information: Southwark Council Cabinet Meeting

Exeter City Council Cabinet Meeting | 7 April 2020

Time: 5.30pm
Organiser: Exeter City Council
Platform: Skype and YouTube
More information: Exeter City Council Cabinet Meeting

Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting  | 1 May 2020

Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting
Organiser: Kirklees Council
Platform: You Tube
More information: Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting

Charnwood Borough Council  Plans Committee | 6 May 2020

Organiser: Charnwood Borough Council
Platform: Zoom and You Tube
More information: Charnwood Borough Council

Northumberland County Council Cabinet Meeting | 12 May 2020

Organiser: Northumberland County Council
Platform: You Tube
More information: Northumberland County Council Cabinet Meeting

Discussion webinars

MHCLG digital webinar on continued functioning of local government

9 April 2020: Digital webinar on ‘continued functioning of local government’ meeting notes
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)

• Public decision-making processes and enabling technologies
• Understanding internal workforce availability and capacity

support@localdigital.gov.uk for general enquiries
events@localdigital.gov.uk for COVID-19 weekly call enquiries

Making democracy digital in response to COVID-19

This panel webinar will explore solutions from local authorities across the country to discuss how councils have embraced this new way of remote working and how they envisage local democracy working now it has been digitalised.

Watch the video 'Making democracy digital in response to COVID-19' on YouTube

LGA & Zoom - Video Conferencing Workshop

On Friday 26 March 2021, the LGA and Zoom collaborated to deliver a workshop on the use and functionalities of Zoom for local government.

The session began with a brief presentation from Zoom’s UK Government Relations Director, Charlotte Holloway, in which she spoke about importance of technology in boosting public engagement and supporting the delivery of democracy in local government.

Phil Rumens, Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council, followed up with an overview of how the Council have been using Zoom to deliver remote council meetings throughout COVID-19.  He specifically highlighted the Zoom and YouTube integrated live streaming feature; this was pivotal in ensuring that council meetings are easy to access for the wider public. Rumen’s also spoke about how the Council used their website as a central point of communication for providing updates on new features Zoom and remote council meeting guidance.

After, Zoom’s Customer Success Team Lead, Dana Vuursteen, gave an in-dept demonstration of Zoom’s key features and functionalities. Given the focus on remote council meetings, Vuursteen concentrated on security features, like the ability to lock a meeting during a session, enabling a waiting room, removing or suspending participant activity, so that hosts can control participant activity. She also demonstrated how hosts can create, launch polls and share results with all participants in real time.

View the recording of our Zoom workshop

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Q and A from the session